I will never forget September 28, 2013. It was a cold night in Harrod, Ohio, as our football team was getting ready to go to battle against the Allen East Mustangs, under the friday night lights. The talk was cheap at school all week about how we were going to crush the Mustangs with ease, but everything changed the instance that first whistle blew.
The first drive of the game seemed like we thought we had already won the game. The Mustangs marched right down the field, and their side of the bleachers erupted with loud, cheering fans. Our strong point was our offense anyways, so we thought that we were fine. Then we got stopped on our first offensive drive, and that’s where the frustration came into play. At the end of the first quarter, we …show more content…
It almost seemed as if it were a routine. Once again we kicked the ball off, and in a ten play, five minute drive, the Mustangs scored. They missed the extra point again making the score 33-21. At this point, there were about eight minutes left in the game, and you could progressively see our bleachers get emptier and emptier. Losing to an 0-6 team wasn’t an option for us. Our next drive was a quick one, a touchdown from five yards out by our running back. This capped it off, making it 33-28. The next drive, our defense was in lockdown. They punted the ball back to us with three minutes left in the game. It was now or never for us. At this point in the game, both teams were tired and exhausted. It simply came down to who put more work into practice and who pushed themselves harder. First down we had an incomplete pass. Second down our quarterback got sacked to make it third down and twenty with two minutes and fifteen seconds left in the game. Coach called timeout to draw up a play to catch them off guard. It seemed liked the perfect play, and it was, but our wide receiver dropped the ball and messed it up. The game came down to a fourth and twenty. Still having to drive eighty yards to score. Coach called another timeout and drew up another play, a simple twenty yard out route by me. This meant our line had to block extra long for this play to work. Our center snapped the ball to the quarterback, and he let it fly through the lights. Then I made a good catch on the sideline to keep the drive alive. Next play, we threw some trickery into the offense. I caught the ball on a ten yard hitch and pitched it to a running back following right behind me for a gain of fifty yards. We called our last time out. This left one last desperation play for us, and once again it was drawn up for me. When coach was